Edith Wharton Quotes and Quotations
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.